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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  ? Classes make me do lots of cool things besides sitting in a room and ... "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate ... mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  fact, do have personalities outside of academics and studying. Just a ... outs and do's and don't's of being a panelist. Week 3: panel I ended up ... they're doing somewhat okay. We all have a messenger group chat together

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  paper and do that pset when you have a puppy to play with. Thanksgiving ... .[annotation note="This is a joke. Please don't do this."]Drop all your classes ... so that I could go home for less than a thousand dollars. The fried

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  plastic bags to do this? 2) A Bicycle Trailer -- A previous D-Lab student ... I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working ... related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  do so left me wondering the entire trip what was Chinotto. (A lot of ... Rome So my spring break trip began in a sudden blur of things. My day ended at 11 on Friday after my last class and I had only 28 hours to do

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  until we have actual work to do. We have a nice view of Burton-Connor and ... moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal ... in A-Entry for the summer -- actually, strictly speaking, I had been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... " letters, or handwritten notes from admissions offices complimenting a ... why likely letters aren't a part of our process is that our process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  !, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has an image for an answer. It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... during the "reading season." A reading day is a day that we admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  professions that are far removed from STEM. My mother has a small business doing ... can even do a lot with just one. Where you get with your “two” might ... to replicate a technique for doing something. It may also include

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  it took a full embarrassingly long minute for him to relent and do so ... questions about my braids (I still do even at MIT, surprise). I got a lot of ... Andrea Orji, '21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  me a curveball: what do I do for fun. MIT may be known for its academic ... Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  Doctor Russ. Lieutenant Colonel Russ Lachance, a grad student I ... what do with. I just hope he doesn't complicate things any further by ... UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours ... morning, the first thing I do right after I wake up is solve a Rubik’s cube ... school don’t play with cubes. It’s just a fun thing some people do.  my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  should go home, even if you’ll feel like a failure for doing so… it could ... ), and it felt weird to write on a blog about my MIT experience under a ... it was because I had a crush on this girl and running was ‘my time’ to

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... was a no-brainer. My anticipation was compounded by the fact that I had a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  felt like I was doing a lot of homework. Looking back, I rarely used any ... and all that certainly helped. There are just a few things I learned this semester that make me wish I had paid a bit more attention when I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  what I want to do, and not to let my disappointment turn me into a bitter ... I was a high achiever since a young age just because I thought school by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that ... that I was a little loud and a little awkward in high school. I spent most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  not even buy a car. If I do, it will probably be a Saturn, preferrably ... we have kids, although I'd like a boy. I'll do a lot of cooking to save ... this year? If you do, I'd love to drop a penny off the Empire State

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005